NANOCOMPOSITE TECHNOLOGY: ADVANCES

Nanocomposite is a multiphase solid material where one of the phases has one, two or three dimensions of less than 100 nanometers (nm), or structures having nano-scale repeat distances between the different phases that make up the material. In the broadest sense this definition can include porous media, colloids, gels and copolymers, but is more usually taken to mean the solid combination of a bulk matrix and nano-dimensional phase(s) differing in properties due to dissimilarities in structure and chemistry. This book gives a broad overview of existing developments in nanocomposite technology research and a tremendous introduction to nanoelectronics, nanomaterial applications and bionanocomposites.